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Special economic zones (SEZs) have been touted as “tools for development”, and yet their results have often been disappointing. We explain how SEZs can be used to reform a country from a system dominated by rent-seeking to a liberalized economy, where officials derive their revenues from...
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Africa is one of the most economic-integrated continents by a number of regional trade agreements in the continent … trade of Africa, which is much lower than other continents' intra-regional trade share. This discrepancy between many … regional trade agreements and small intra-continent trade share tells that regional economic integrations in Africa are very …
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empirical results show that trade openness significantly improves food security in Sub-Saharan Africa. However, in the presence …
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This study complements existing literature by examining the short-run heterogeneous and longrun homogeneous impacts of foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade on ecological footprints in 37 African countries for the period 1990 to 2019. Utilizing the pooled mean group estimator,...
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All WTO members participate in the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), a rules-based bottom-up approach built on monitorable provisions (e.g. the publication of information, advance rulings, appeal or review of decisions, transparency, and border agency cooperation) aimed at reducing time in...
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This paper assesses the potential impacts of services trade liberalisation for a sample of African countries. The focus is on the relationship between labour productivity of manufacturing sectors and two types of services trade-related policies – restrictions on foreign direct investment (FDI)...
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Africa, conducted by the IMF nad the African Economic Research Consortium. It represents the views of government officials … Africa. Issues include the role of trade liberalization in promoting sustained growth, interdependence of trade and …
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